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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08

There is a large attendance at the 4sth
annual session of the American Institute Of
instruction which is now in progress at
Burlington. On Tuesday evening the
teachers were welcomed to the state by
Gov Ormsbee in feicitous speech, follow
ed by remarks by President Hall and an
opening of the discussions of the session
On Wednesday morning President Hall de
livered his annual address, two papers were
read and discussed, an afternoon excursion
was enjoyed, and in the evening Rev. II
@. Spaulding of Boston delivered his inter
esting illustrated lecture upon "Pompeii'
hefnre the institlte
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08
VT. mermon school.

The graduation exercises at Mt Hermon
boys school, held last week, were very in
teresting and largely attended. The num-
Der OF graduates was small, but over 22j
students have the past year been receiving
the benefits of the school. Not less than
S225, 600 has been expended in buildings.
and a nucleus Of $50, 900 for an endowment
i9nd has been secured already, which
shows wonderful progress for an institu-
llol. at was Hsai-u '-. ! ~ doz-
en- ''- The srh,. uu. under
ch '-rt g. 5l.yar IS loing A
sP hei Hl-v pleasing to
TIL Hant. aa.trl If, support.
A .-at on .1..na neement
"a chichester,
Eng "nC boys at the
sch Two address. , ,-s lay was by
Fr mo11 II Ssi.s.ow, Scot
ng forth Of
" 4 for build
er "AHh vastly more
tH a'N possession
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08

The decrease in the national debt, less
cash in the treasury, during June was near
ly S1L00O,OOO (S1G, $50, 72j), which brings
the reduction Of the debt during the fiscal
year up to nearly $11O, 600, (S1O9, 1O4,-
GlG) This is little more than the excess
Of revenue over expenditure for the year,
which was, in round numbers, SOB 900,
600. The expenditures have been consid-
erably greater than in the previous year,
the increase being S2G 600, 600, but the rev
nues have increased more rapidly, namely
by S3j, 600, 600, so that the net increase in
the surplus is $4,000, 600.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08
Edilarn.

-t 4teur press associa-
Inual convention at
jOstOn, on Wednes-
h seeting was called to
jolman of Providence.
.journed so as 10 give
snt-40 in number-time
officers elected were as
dent, A. G.. Davis, Bangor,
idents, Paul Sterling, Bridge
and Miss Frances Parsons,
lass; secretary, f. F. Studley,
., r l.; treasurer, A. II. Nash,
Mass; official editor f. d. Cole.
Village, Me- Next meeting place.
I'd, Conn. At 1870 the banquet was
followed by toasts aud responses.
raj old time amateurs were present.
ltations were received from the Boston
ODE and Oakland Garden proprietors 10
lhil lhelf establishments. @. =. s.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08

The action Of Carriers Little Liver Pills is pleas
ant mid and natural They gently stimulate the
liver and regulate the bowels but do moi purge
] They are sure 10 please
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08
FROM EX-sRCRBTA

lhAlfact IRON pr
= The colore
the Fourth here, and r,
This is the first 4th o.
without hearing the
iire-crackers and 4
the necessary app
tin horns but ,
cracker season ,
| shall postpone tr
and take it a 1
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-08
HOME NEWS.
meteorological Record.


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lHrometer. highest, 30 81. 9th: lowest 20 "a
3d' mean. AnuS Th,unometcr. highest pg 8Hb.
lowest, 3d. 10Th; mean, 81, &; mean maximum N.
urah MINIMUM, 53 5. Mean relative humidity
~, NiuI prevailing, south, highest velocity
per hour iu miles. 3f, I'D. total movement i,il
mlr. Ir,cInIintIlm. min. 1 70 inches
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

eyes in time to see quite flock of
pigeons dart over our heads. We flew
to arms, but too late, and stood with
blank countenances gazing at each
other. We determined not to be
caught again mapping, nor were we
so caught, for the very next flock was
saluted with three shots, to which three
pigeons responded by tumbling to the
ground. There is an art in shooting
pigeons; the best plan is to take posi-
ton on the margin of a wood, over
which the birds are flying. By so doing
the birds fly over you before they have
a chance of seeing you and suddenly
changing their course. Again, do not
fire at the birds as they approach. The
very thick wad of feathers on their
breast will turn off shot like the armor
of ship-ofwar, and your only chance
is to hit them in the head. Let the birds
get overhead before taking aim, and then
fire as they go away from you, thus
throwing the shot into the feathers.
We had fine sport that morning, al
though we lost many chances by the de-
lay in loading our guns. our numbed fin
gers refusing to act promptly. carried
home some fifteen birds, and was not
far behind the most successful of our
party. l arrived, however, too late to
have my game for dinner, so the old cook
set about giving us pigeon pot-pie for
supper. AS we discussed this toothsome
dish at the cheeriest meal of the day, con-
versation naturally turned on the wild
pigeon. For years l had remarked the
semi-annual migration of these birds.
They appear to have no settled time to
start on their journey. have observed
them going South one year in October,
and maybe the next the first flight will be
seen about Thanksgiving Day. Ihave seen
some large t1ocks, but nothing compared
to those observed by others. Audubon
computed single flock to contain I, 49,
100000 birds, while Wilson estimated one
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24
DEFECTIVE SPEECH,
Some Reasons Given for the Causes OF
This Addiction.

Some Reasons Given for the Causes of
This Addiction.
On this subject we give the leading points
of a clinical lecture reported in the London
Lancet:
A child with cleft palate uses his tongue
and the muscles OF the palate in an I'M
natural way. Hence, after the closure of
the cleft by an operation an impediment re-
mains, because the patient is still controlled
by his previous habits. He will need, there
fore, systematic training for months or
years to acquire right habits in the case
One prime requisite is that he fix his entire
attention on his teacher, and slowly initiate
him as the latter strongly pronounces the
difficult words, making every movement of
his lips and tongue as plain as possible.
The palate may be so highly arched that
the child's speech is not much better than
that of the former case. But the soft part of
the palate can be lowered by an operation,
and the speech greatly improved by training.
There may be extreme backwardness in
speaking, though there is no organic defect
Here a practiced eye will see that there is
mental feebleness. Speech training will be
a part of the necessary training of the intel
lectual powers.
In other cases. the mental powers gener-
ally may be good, and the child be indeed
specially bright, but, for some cerebral
reason ne lisps badly, or hnds 1t difficult to
pronounce the letters or t. or he speaks in a
babyish way. Such patients will generally
overcome the difficulty in time.
Sometimes the voice is ''stufiy," especially
in endeavoring to utter M, n or ng. The
word morning sounds like bordig. This is
due to growths in the nose or back mouth
On the removal of these, by a surgical opera
Enlarged tonsils sometimes cause q some
what similar difficulty.
Another defect is stammering. Usually
the person has a nervous constitution, and
has been subjected to some nervous strain,
generally at school. In such cases all dis
turbing causes should be removed, and the
nervous system be invigorated as far as pos
sble. But the stammerer must be taught to
speak with deliberate enunciatiOn, initiating
the teacher in the utterance of all difficult
words, and especially filling the lungs well
at every stop Youths Companion.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24
PAYING A BAD DEBT.
The Guests of Hotel Meet the Proprietor's
OBLIGATIONS,

Obligations.
This story of Paul Smith, the Adirondack
Hotel keeper, comes through the Boston
Budget. A neighboring blacksmith, who, by
the way, is also famous "exhorter" among
backwoods congregations, succeeded in Dor
rowing $40 of Pauls cash to extend his bust
ness. For months and years the loan re-
manned unpaid. Every time the two met the
blacksmith would anticipate any tendency
toward dunning on the part of the creditor
by saying he Ought to pay the loan, and
would pay it SOON" But Smith seemed no
nearer being reimbursed than before.
Finally, in the height of the season, with his
house full of guests, he bethought himself
o. a scheme for getting square with the
blacksmith and turning his ''exhOrtations"
to peouniary account.
He arranged quietly with the ''exhOrter"
for services the following Sabbath in the
little chapel near the hotel, agreeing to
divide such of the proceeds as should re-
main after the old debt was cancelled. Then
Paul took special pains that all his wealthy
guests should become interested in the
promised effort, announcing the coming
event and bespeaking their attenda nee. The
Sabbath came and the "exhOrter" was made
happy by the presence of large congrega-
ton, while the collection footed up the hand
some total of $50. Paul got his $40, as well
as profit of S21 additional and lost
no opportunity of telling his wealthy guests
how they were led into a scheme for assisting
him in securing the amount of a bad debt.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

cartridges neatly strapped about your
waists are sybaritcs compared to the boy
hunters of twenty years ago There was
nothing about my equipment to make me
proud. l carried my powder in an old
yeast-powder bottle. In the left pocket of
my jacket a ginger-beer bottle reposed
In it was my shot. A box of percussion
caps lay snugly in one of the pockets of
my rather seedy inexpressibles, and in
the other was a supply of hornets nest
remnants for wadding. don't want to
appear conceited, but believe l was as
well accoutred as my companions. l had
been very careful that morning to see
that had my box of caps, for | remem-
bered an occasion when | found, after a
twentymile tramp, that my percussion
caps were at home and my trusty gun
was as useful as a crowbar as far as
bringing down any game was concerned.
After our guns were loaded our feet were
cold again, and more hopping and stamp
ing ensued until we must have presented
the appearance of lot of gnomes en-
joying dance before breakfast. While
thus employed happened to raise my
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

to be composed of 2,23OOOO,OO0 pigeons.
Vast numbers these, but very likely cor
rect estimates. Whence come this
feathered horde? Where do they live
How do they get food? are questions that
suggest themselves. The habitat of the
pigeon is extensive; it stretches across
the North American continent, and ex-
tends from the winter stunted forests
that skirt Hudson bay to the tangled lux
uriance of the forests of Louisiana and
Texas. The rapidity with which they
breed may be imagined when one thinks
OF single squad being Matched at
time. OF course they breed several times
year, and hundred nests have been
counted on single tree. A breeding
place in Kentucky was found to extend
forty miles in length and several in
breadth. Few birds can compare
with the pigeon in swiftness of flight
and in endurance; they are said to
have crossed the Atlantic ocean. If this
be true-and it does not seem Incredible
that ocean traveller at least feared neither
iceberg nor fog-hidden ship, and doubt
less dashed ahead at rate closely ap-
preaching mile minute The food of
these birds in my neighborhood was
chiefly a small acorn growing on a
scrubby oak. In the West. however, the
great staple food is beech-mast. AS
there are whole tracts of land covered
with these trees in the West, the birds
find plenty of food. Here it is that those
immense roosts are formed where hunt
ers Stay the sleepy birds with every con-
ceivable weapon. Thousands are slain
and packed in barrels for shipment to
Eastern markets.
JAS. G. PLUMMER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24
A Wine Story.

The following incident is vouched for by
scientific persons: An English gentleman
was presented with cask of Malmsey sweet
wine, which was ordered to be placed in an
inner room of his wine cellar He was
absent from home for long time and on
his return ordered his butler to open the
wine for his guests. His astonishment may
well he imagined when he was informed that
the entrance to the room was closed by am
enormous fungus growth. An entrance was
forced with difficulty by chipping the fun
gus with an ak. The cask was found empty,
pressed against the ceiling, supported upon
and surrounded by this vegetable matter,
which almost entirely filed up thr main
ing space in the apartment. -EIehange
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

rainy. Toward evening it cleared, the
wind veering to the northwest and
blowing great guns, sending the mercury
flying down the tube. Just the morning
for pigeons, and before bedtime party
-of youthful Nimrods had arranged to
start for the woods the next morning.
Then we severally retired to dream of
Staying many pigeons if we were true
hunters, or to entertain visions of pigeon
pot-pie if we were gluttonous.
Down through the orchard wend nv
way, the dew, cold as ice, wetting me up
to the knees; but out upon hunter who
minds wet feet Across a field to the
highroad, and there l find two of the
party formed the night before impatiently
awaiting me. One member is absent,
and we abandon the sluggard to remorse
when he awakens. Just behind the viii
lage was patch of woodland shaped
like triangle, the point extending into
an uncultivated field. Every autumn
the pigeons habitually flew over this
piece of woods and generally left
1t by way of the point of the angle.
Why birds having unlimited space to
travel in should confine themselves to
y a
mystery, unless they, like the Cunard
steamers, have summer and winter
route marked out. The reason probably
was that formerly the birds found acorns
OF toothsome variety in this woods and
were wont to stop and breakfast there,
thus acquiring habit they did not re-
linquish after they changed their dining
room, for l do not recollect the birds
stopping there to feed in my time. The
point of this woody angle was our des-
tination, and when we reached it there
was ruddy glow in the East that made
few stars which had evidently been
making night of it look sickly and
shamefaced.-
There were no pigeons flying, but we
were not idle. In the first place we had to
get our feet warm. This we accomplished
by walking about briskly and stamping
them on the ground. In the second place
we had TO load our guns. You sports
men of to-day, with your breech-loading,
hammerless guns and your ready-loaded
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24
BEN wADE'S PROFANITY,
How it Was Excused by His Friends in
the United States Senate.

1t should go without saying that Charles
Sumner was never guilty of profanity. Yet
he was tolerant of those of his associates
who, like Senator Wade, when righteously
indignant, would drop with great vigor into
the vernacular of his early days.
Once, when the senator from Ohio had
made the air sulphurous and lurid with his
picturesque profanity over peculiarly ex-
asperatlng and disastrous performance in
negrophobia of one of our generals, milk
and-water sort of person, who sneered, in
his absence, at old Ben's language, was
checked by Summers stare, and by his
saying: Gould you have given better ex-
preston of our opinion?"
But the oaths," was the reply.
"Still lift had to be DONE" said the senator,
'you will admit that it was well done"
But the oaths," reiterated the dilettante
"Ah," said Sumner, "they are of the kind
that my Uncle Toby said the Recording
Angel will blot out with a tear" And then
he added rehectively:
But in old Ben's case it will be rather
hard on the lachrymal glands. THE COsnaO-
pOlitan.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24
THE WILD PIGEON.
HUNTING THIS BIRD A SPORT
THAT DOES NOT CLOY.
Proving the Truth of a Spiteful Remark
Once Made by Frenchman--Descriptio
of a Days Outing by Young Nimrods-
Vast Numbers in the Feathered Hortles. 4


A Frenchman who doubtless desired
to say something smart and sarcastic
once remarked that an Englishman's idea
of enjoying beautiful day was to go
out and kill something Rather severe,
perhaps, but nevertheless it contains a
spice of truth. have English blood in
my veins and the pleasantest recollections
of my boyhood are connected with the
chase and final slaughter of some inno-
cent creature. Give man modicum of
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

DIR. Fanny Dickinson, of Chicago was the
first physician of the gentler sex to be admit
ted as a member ofthe International Medical
Congress, at Washington. She is slight,
demure little woman, retiring in manner and
extremely modest. Her speciality is disease
of the eyes. She says that she knows of only
two other oculists of her own sex i'll, the
country. One is DIR. Sargent of San Fran
cisco, daughter of the late Senator Sargent,
and the other is a Michigan woman.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

by any other pleasure giving
excursion. The very dogs leap
ing around you, eager to set out, commu-
nicate their excitement to you, and for
ward is the cry. Your buoyant stride
laughs at furlongs and miles and as you
proceed you cast behind the dull, tagging
cares of life and breathe deeply and
freely of the pure morning air The
coming home must perforce be tame. If
you have been unsuccessful, you are of
course depressed; if the contrary, there is
little safety, mingled with good deal
of fatigue, that rather dampens your en-
thusiasm.
But the sport does not cloy. have
passed many weary hour under hick-
ory tree awaiting the squirrel who is
tardy in coming to supper. l have swell
tered through marshes, on breathless days
of July, after woodcock With numbed
fingers l have hunted the rabbit over the
snow-covered landscape, and yet forgot
fatigue and discomfort the next day in
an ardent desire to repeat my perform
ance. The sport that excited me most,
however, in "auld lang syne" was pigeon
hunting. Even as write l feel longing
TO try my skill at the swiftly darling
birds, and think fondly of the mornings
| have spent in the woods after these
creatures
Armed with an old muzzle- loading
gun, 1 would creep out of the house,
before the sun-who, by the way, is in
clined to lie abed these cold autumn
mornings-had stretched and yawned
sufficiently to show his sleepy face above
the horizon. I was happy, enthusiastic
and cold-very cold, for the wind blew
fiercely and had flavor of snow in it,
The day before had been warm and
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

A newspaper at Bogota reports that the
gold which is now being dug out of the an
cient cemeteries at Hilandia and other places
near Pereira, in Cauca, has led more than
1000 workmen to flock to that spot, and
town has sprung up there within the past
$1,000 inhabitants. These people are almost
all Antioquians, and the majority of them
have obtained sufficient gold to render them
selves and their families independent of
work for the remainder of their liyes.-Er.
Many husband lifts heavy weights and
runs. very hard to prove how strong and act
i've he is, yet is too weak to carry the baby
and too tired to draw pail of water for his
steaming wife. ..... ,.,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24
BAB'S GOSSIP.
THE GROWING EVENT OF THE
SEASON AT LONG BRANCH.

Beautiful Toilets Displayed at Mrs. Lang
try's ent-Characteristics of
Some Particularly Fetching Costumes
A Looking-glass Which viii Cost So, 700.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss
if it issue not in resolution to do so no more.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22

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PoND ( LAKsON.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
TELEcRAPHlc NEWS.
PLAIN LtNGrAGE.

A Suggestion 81 Victoria bY Temper
gace Man.
DgaLy, O:t 22-At meeting yes
terday Of the Church Of Ireland Temper
aacs Society, Canon Welden said be
hoped the Queen would fud more suit
able way to honor her husbands memory
than by sending Der sons aud son-in.law
to the top Of Highland mountain to
drink raw whisky. lie was present at
this years festival in honor Of the Queen
and be never saw a more disgusting and
revolving scene of drunkenness. 1t sur
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Fair.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22

FoLsos, II used Butte-Tiae in chronic
rheumatism with great benefit, Please send a
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
DAKOTA TE&RIr0RT.

wh2t the Governor says OF Population
and Property.
WAsHIaGTos, Oct -. The Governor
Of Dakota IN bia annual report says: OF
tae public lands, 23,Sll.4t5 acres remain
uaoceupisd aud during the past years
over $4,000, 900 acres have been entered.
The population is sos, AT, and assessed
value Of property S757, ,9Si, sos. The
area sOwn 10 wheat this ear was 3, 1913,
459 acres; yielding 60,000,O 600 bushels
The value OF live stock is $42;2S2, 32S.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22

LONDON, Oct % Balfour has written
a letter denying the statements published
iu the Daily News, that the police had
instructed informer Coleman 20 organize
tae outrage at Farmer Sections house
during the psrpe'ration OF (which Con
ss4ble Whelaa was killed..
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
RLLEAsAu ON BAIL.
The Mcdonald shooting AFFAIR.

SAS FEANcIsco. Oct. -. yesterday
afternoon Mrs. Mcdonald deposited So.
800 cash bail for her appearance for ex.
animation next Thursday, and was re.
leased from custody. DIR. K. II. Nc.
Donald was at the Pacific Bank to-day.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
RAILROAD COLLISION.


CHArrAN0oGA. Oct, -. A collision on
tie Nashville. Chattanooga, x st. Louis
Railroad yesterday resulted in the in.
atsnt death Of A. W. Williams aud an
Unknown man ss-- ....t
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22

kgSANTA Abe ia auly so'i ia large hotties
at al; three Tor 81 So sold ty all wiioiosais and
retlil irlg,ists. q
by Y. LEVY & Co.. Winnie
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
EAETLEy CAmPBLlL,
Ramdi, Recovering lll. Reason.

NEw YORK, Oct. - 'Bartley Camp.
beA is rapidly recovering ms reason, and
viii he able to eat his Christmas dinner
outside OF the Asylum.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
THg GAMES FOg THE CHAMPION.
SHIP.


WAsHISGroS, Oct. 22.-In the morn
iaE game the Detroi.s scored and St.
Louis I.
BALTIMORE, Oct. - Yesterday after
noon the Dstroits scored l3 and St Louis
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-22
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